It’s not that much about playing NBA. More being able to play a game of basketball. Or watch one and understand the rules.

Or knowing when you need to call a plumber vs running to Lowe’s and fix it yourself.

I don’t thing we should expect anybody beside software engineers to be software engineers.

But a greater code literacy would go a long way.

Imagine scenarios where you hand over your code delivery to a client that can actually run and manage it.

I don’t know what NBA level would mean for software.

You need a uncanny, almost innate ability to perform in a extremely competitive field, where a ton of other really good agents are operating at the same time.

I can’t think of anything like that in software really. E-sport would apply but it’s not really the subject. Maybe some demo-scenes? Or raw effective genius ala John carmak.